Impact of Motivavtion on Employee Productivity

Effect of Motivation on Employee Productivity

Employee motivation has always been a central problem for leaders and managers. Unmotivated employees are likely to spend little or no effort in their jobs, avoid the workplace as much as possible, leave the organization if given the opportunity and produce low quality work. On the other hand, employees who feel motivated to work are likely to be persistent, creative and productive, turning out high quality work that they willingly undertake.

Organizational performance at individual, collegial and organization levels are being jeopardized and subjected to various organizational changes. Specifically, as developed organizations became larger, more multifaceted and more challenging, concerns about organizational performance competencies development and how it could likely to impact culture and direction of the organization have been in the forefronts of business dialogues. There had been much to say about the role of motivation and their expansion but very little has been done on developing motivation-based performance and much little movement on investigating organizational performance and its relative effect on employee’s productivity in organizations.(Abey Francis., October 2017)

Importance of Motivation

Motivation occupies an important place and position in the whole management process. This technique can be used fruitfully for encouraging workers to make positive contribution for achieving organizational objectives. Motivation is necessary as human nature needs some sort of inducement, encouragement or incentive in order to get better performance. Motivation of employee’s offers may benefits to the Organisation and also to the employees. This suggests the importance of motivating employees. Motivation acts as a technique for improving the performance of employees working at different levels.

Motivation of employees is one function which every manager has to perform along with other managerial functions. A manager has to function as a friend and motivator of his subordinates. Motivation is useful in all aspects of life and even our family life. The same is the case with business. This dearly suggests that motivation is extremely important. It is an integral part of management process itself.

(Anar Nasibov., November 2015)

Self-Motivation and Confident Employees

Some employees are motivated through feeling a sense of accomplishment and achievement for meeting personal and professional goals. Many workers are self-disciplined and self-motivated. Incentive and rewards have little effect on employees who feel motivated only when they are confident in their abilities and personally identify with their role within the organization. These individuals perform productively for the sake of the personal challenge work provides.

Implementation Strategies

There are several ways to motivate employees and drive worker productivity. Because different factors influence workers in different ways, utilize motivational strategies that encompass several techniques. For example, to influence workers who are money motivated, an employer may implement a daily "spiff" that pays cash instantly to employees who meet short-term production goals. To achieve long-term production goals, an employer could implement a program that encourages friendly competition between workers to meet production numbers. At the conclusion of the program, employers can publicly recognize top performers for a job well done.

(Sherrie Scott., February 2019)

CONCLUSION

Some employees are money motivated while others find recognition and rewards personally motivating.Motivation levels within the workplace have a direct impact of employee productivity.Workers who are motivated and exited about their jobs carry out their responsibilities to the best of their ability and production numbers increase as a result.

REFERENCES

1.Abey Francis., October 2017. (Available at https://www.mbaknol.com/management-concepts/effect-of-motivation-on-employee-productivity/)

2.Anar Nasibov., November 2015. (Available at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/impact-employee-motivation-performance-productivity-anar-nesibov)

3.Sherrie Scott., February 2019. (Available at https://smallbusiness.chron.com/motivation-productivity-workplace-10692.html)